Frankly My Dear . . .
I would have thought that cliched humorless feminist ideologues were all consigned to the Smithsonian by now, but here is Jill at I Blame the Patriarchy unloading on old movies after watching Turner Classic Movies. Women wear heels, and men yank at the bit in a horse’s mouth. Dear me! In addition, TCM host Robert Osborne fails to browbeat Clark Gable and John Wayne for their sexist failings.
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All the dreck on TV nowadays, and she manages to bash one of the few decent stations.
Wow, that is some seriously insane stuff there. I somehow ended up on the feministing site once, and saw an argument in the comments section about the use of the term lame. The site’s founder threatened to ban someone who used it because it is “ableist”. Radical feminists like those are beyond parody.
If (and I’m not convinced) the linked-to blog isn’t satirical, then it’s authoress is so thick that she misses the gag in Strangelove.
I bet she’s a scream at parties.
Q: How many Feminists does it take to change a light bulb?
A: “That’s not funny!”
Early as a young businessman, dressed in my suit and tie about 30 years ago, I was in a meeting and there were about 11 ladies, no other men. One of Jill’s twins was there and “went off” about male-dominated… blah blah blah.
I sat straight-faced, as did everyone else, suddenly the lady got a message and had to jump up and leave the room. As she faded from sight, every lady in the room burst out laughing, and one said, “My God, what’s she on today?”
Suddenly I was one of the 11 people left in the room, waiting for her to return (instead of what I first feared, “me against them”).
I shall picture Jill, the next time I hear some mindless reference to “neocon”, or “the last 8 years”, or “that’s almost as bad as Palin”. I shall laugh at myself, because they are related to Jill, and it’s possible some of them don’t know it.
the great mistake conservatives make is assuming that
a. this ‘stuff’ is absurd , cliched even laughable, and therefore impotent.
b. the power of marxist/pc thought is receding.
The fact is the ridiculous has become mainstream to the point were the feminist marxist nonsense ‘he or she’ is now commonplace even in the American Conservative.
I am not that old, but still old enough to remember when EB White’s Elements of style called this ‘silly’.
Best comment by one of her readers: “the wedding-industrial complex.”
Posted on September 16th, 2008 by Clark Stooksbury
Prediction
The Republican spin on the collapsing stock market: it’s the fault of “coastal elites.”
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I am one of those types who think the “last 8 years” had both good and bad. I happen to know for a fact the market indicators were decent until 6 months after the dems took over congress in 2007. Bush, and other various “voices crying the wilderness” warned of the fanny/freddy danger.
I like Palin, although she has taken herself permanently off my list of presidential possibilities.
I like Rush, in measured amounts. I like O’Reilley, in smaller amounts. Hannity in even lesser amounts. Glen Beck in somewhat greater amounts.
I hate war. But like the death penalty, maybe sometimes it’s necessary. Mostly not.
Stooksbury is usually good for a laugh. …So you thought we were going to blame the liberals for California and New York’s financial problems? Sir, you are clairvoyant, prescient even.
Next thing you know, people like you and Jill will suspect me of claiming that Obama’s economy was worse (and longer) than necessary.
(The above, tongue in cheek, remembering that Stooksbury, and others, are a valuable part of the discourse here at TAC, and indeed in the US as a whole)
See, on the TV there are two nobs. One turns the set off and the other…changes the channel!
You don’t hear men complaing about Oxygen, WE or Lifetime do you?
I don’t think that “he or she” is feminist nonsense at all. “He” is usable, “one” works as well, but not all people are male, and I don’t feel like acknowledging that is feminism-creep so much as it’s a way of making sure that nobody thinks they have a dodge.